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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

This included SysAdmin magazine, which contained articles from various experts including Amy Rich, and a couple of advertisements: One was to submit your own articles to the magazine for publication (by writing to the editor, Rikki Endsley) and another was to attend USENIX conferences in the US and learn directly from the experts!

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USENIX SREcon APAC 2022: Computing Performance: What's on the Horizon

Brendan Gregg

This included SysAdmin magazine, which contained articles from various experts including Amy Rich, and a couple of advertisements: One was to submit your own articles to the magazine for publication (by writing to the editor, Rikki Endsley) and another was to attend USENIX conferences in the US and learn directly from the experts!

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How To Add eBPF Observability To Your Product

Brendan Gregg

opensnoop Files opened table. cachestat File system cache statistics line charts. We'll likely open source the new one at some point and have a post about it on the Netflix tech blog. ## Case study: Facebook Facebook are advanced users of BPF, but deep details of how they run the tools fleet-wide aren't fully public.

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Improving The Performance Of Wix Websites (Case Study)

Smashing Magazine

And it also engaged with the performance community as a whole, for example by attending conferences, bringing in domain experts, and studying up on modern architectures such as the Jamstack. Source: HTTP Archive's Core Web Vitals Technology Report.) ( Large preview ). Measuring And Monitoring. Large preview ).

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A thorough introduction to bpftrace

Brendan Gregg

bpftrace is a new open source tracer for Linux for analyzing production performance problems and troubleshooting software. There are also two modes visible, one between 1 and 2 milliseconds, and another between 8 and 16 milliseconds: this sounds like cache hits and cache misses. was just released. ^C SYNOPSIS biolatency.bt

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How To Add eBPF Observability To Your Product

Brendan Gregg

If you're using an open source monitoring platform, first check if it already has a BPF agent. opensnoop Files opened table 3. cachestat File system cache statistics line charts 7. Think of this as "version 1": A starting point that's pretty useful. Run your first tool Start by installing the [bcc] or [bpftrace] tools.

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Revisiting “Serverless Architectures”

The Symphonia

I was a little restricted in my thinking the first time around and I’ve come to see FaaS as something not quite stateless, since caching state in a Lambda instance that might stick around for 5 hours is a perfectly reasonable idea. Also there’s been a lot of open source updates, including from Amazon and Microsoft.